Twitter is teetering because it has turned into one big pyramid scheme | Andrew Smith | Comment is free | The Guardian
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Numbers are great, aren’t they? Just look at all the things you can do with them. You can add, subtract, divide. You can calculate the number of atoms in the known, observable universe, or the times you had to ask your daughter to tidy her room; use them to order more than one pizza, underestimate the pace of global warming or exaggerate the size of things as various as planets and fish that got away. For quantitative assessment, numbers rule.